The recently uncovered 'Bootkitty' UEFI bootkit, the first malware of its kind targeting Linux systems, exploits ...
If you have ever heard about EFI or seen an EFI System Partition (ESP) in Windows and wonder what it is, then this post will help you understand. We will talk about EFI, how you can identify the ...
UEFI uses GUID Partition Table (GPT) over Master Boot Record (MBR) — considerd a plus as MBR is somewhat inflexible. Many platforms shipped today are based on the open-source EDK2 project from ...
Since WinRE is a second system and in the UEFI system one hard drive can only have one ESP partition (in the BIOS system - ...
ESET's discovery of the first UEFI bootkit designed for Linux sendss an important message: UEFI bootkits are no longer ...
In case it is GUID Partition Table, then you own a UEFI-based system. If the secondary disk has not been set up, connect it and then initialize the hard drive. Make sure to use MBR as the ...
Installing Windows from scratch isn't necessarily a hard thing to do, but sometimes, things fail in ways we didn;t even know were possible. While it's rare, it's possible that you've tried ...
The format used to define the hard disk partitions in computers with UEFI startup firmware. The GUID Partition Table (GPT) replaces the previous master boot record (MBR). GPT partitions can hold ...